Week I: Introduction
Sep 3: Introduction to the course and participants
Sep 5: Lecture: Britain and the British Empire in 1900

Reading: Jon Lawrence, "Paternalism, Class, and the British Path to Modernity" in Gunn & Vernon (eds.), The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain Ronald Hyam, "The British Empire in the Edwardian Era" in Oxford History of the British Empire: Vol. IV Laura Mayhall, "Defining Militancy: Radical Protest, the Constitutional Idiom, and Women's Suffrage in Britain, 1908-1909," Journal of British Studies, 39:3 (2000) [JSTOR] Morgan, "The First World War" in Twentieth-century Britain

Reading: Wiener, English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit Jim Tomlinson, "A Decline of the Empire and the Economic 'Decline' of
Britain," Twentieth-Century British History (17:2) 2006 Morgan, "The Twenties" in Twentieth-century Britain

Reading: Walkowitz, Nights Out Benjamin Lammers, "The Birth of the East Ender: Neighborhood and Local Identity in Interwar East London," Journal of Social History, 39:2 (2005) [JSTOR] Morgan, "The Thirties" in Twentieth-century Britain

Reading: Hinton, Nine Wartime Lives David Reynolds, "The Churchill Government and Black American Troops in
Britain in World War II," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th
Series, v.35 (1985) [JSTOR] Morgan, "The Second World War" in Twentieth-century Britain

Week V: You Never had it so Good! The Best and Worst of Postwar Britain
Oct 1: Discussion: Wilson, Davis
Oct 3: Discussion: Burgess

Reading: Dolly Wilson, "A New Look at the Affluent Worker: The Good Working Mother in Postwar Britain," Twentieth-Century British History, 17:2 (2006) John Davis, "The London Drug Scene and the Making of Drug Policy, 1965-73," Twentieth-Century British History, 17:1 (2006) Burgess, A Clockwork Orange Morgan, "The Post-war World" and "From the Seventies to the Nineties" in Twentieth-century Britain